1. Wide-angle “Verticality” 2. Zoom “Storage spaces” 3. Focus “Greenery” 4. Crop “Invasion” 5. Bird’s eye “Above” 6. Worm’s eye “Underneath the cage” 7. First person view “Routine” 8. Skewed angle “Maze” Capturing the junction of the alleyways in a panoramic view shows how the alleyways interlock with each other and that they eventually connect back to the main streets. Buildings are so packed and dense in the city, resulting in these narrow alleyways and also the complex system of pathways that join them together. Alleyways are public spaces in a sense that everyone can access to them, yet the

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Wide-angle  If the market is divided into street stalls and the ones in the composite building, relative prosperity of the former one is shown with the panorama that distorts street corners to maximize views over pedestrian flow in one single photo. Zoom Through zooming into fruits pact together, the density among a certain group of objects can be noticed, further to the groups of people, lights and buildings behind. This ultimately creates a harmony of the implied order and crowdedness in the street market. Focus The posture and facial expression when the woman is seriously choosing what to buy actually show

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‘Chiaroscuro’ This picture utilizes the technique of chiaroscuro. This photo was taken to mainly represent the difference between the rich and the poor. As you can see in this picture, the architectures in the front are basically dark. This darkness is meant to represent normal people who aren’t that wealthy. In contrast, the buildings in the back are brighter than the buildings in the front. They are different from typical housings in Hong Kong by the use of meticulous designs. These two contrasting types of buildings were used to indicate the problem of rich and poor in Hong Kong. ‘Wide

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Architecture, at the end, is all about human. It is about the way that embraces the human beings, enriches our lives, and supports our adventures. Hence, I really wanted to capture the scene that both contains the human figure and his/her ‘architecture’, where they spend most of their time – the place where their meanings of existence stands. This photo is divided into two main themes: view frame and outside of the frame. The top part of the photo shows the typical architecture style of Hong Kong, which is the merge of buildings from past several decades and buildings from

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